Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?

Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseevich, 1821-1877

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WHO CAN BE HAPPY AND FREE IN RUSSIA?

BY

NICHOLAS NEKRASSOV


Translated by Juliet M. Soskice

With an Introduction by Dr. David Soskice


1917



[Illustration: Nicholas Nekrassov]



NICHOLAS ALEXEIEVITCH NEKRASSOV

Born, near the town Vinitza, province of Podolia, November 22, 1821

Died, St. Petersburg, December 27, 1877.


_'Who can be Happy and Free in Russia?' was first published in Russia
in 1879. In 'The World's Classics' this translation was first published
in 1917._




CONTENTS:


NICHOLAS NEKRASSOV: A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE

PROLOGUE

PART I.

CHAP.

I. THE POPE
II. THE VILLAGE FAIR
III. THE DRUNKEN NIGHT
IV. THE HAPPY ONES
V. THE POMYESHCHICK

PART II.--THE LAST POMYESHCHICK

PROLOGUE
I. THE DIE-HARD
II. KLIM, THE ELDER

PART III.--THE PEASANT WOMAN

PROLOGUE
I. THE WEDDING
II. A SONG
III. SAVYELI
IV. DJOMUSHKA
V. THE SHE-WOLF
VI. AN UNLUCKY YEAR
VII. THE GOVERNOR'S LADY
VIII. THE WOMAN'S LEGEND

PART IV.--A FEAST FOR THE WHOLE VILLAGE

PROLOGUE
I. BITTER TIMES--BITTER SONGS
II. PILGRIMS AND WANDERERS
III. OLD AND NEW

EPILOGUE




NICHOLAS NEKRASSOV: A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE


Western Europe has only lately begun to explore the rich domain of
Russian literature, and is not yet acquainted with all even of its
greatest figures. Treasures of untold beauty and priceless value, which
for many decades have been enlarging and elevating the Russian mind,
still await discovery here. Who in England, for instance, has heard the
names of Saltykov, Uspensky, or Nekrassov? Yet Saltykov is the greatest
of Russian satirists; Uspensky the greatest story-writer of the lives of
the Russian toiling masses; while Nekrassov, "the poet of the people's
sorrow," whose muse "of grief and vengeance" has supremely dominated the
minds of the Russian educated classes for the last half century, is the
sole and rightful heir of his two great predecessors, Pushkin and